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1899–1974 Scotland

Eric Robert Russell Linklater CBE (8 March 1899 – 7 November 1974) was a Welsh-born Scottish poet, fiction writer, military historian, and travel writer. For The Wind on the Moon, a children's fantasy novel, he won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book by a British subject.

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I find it difficult to recognize people. Human beings are so much alike.

"There won’t be any revolution in America," said Isadore. Nikitin agreed. "The people are all too clean. They spend all their time changing their shirts and washing themselves. You can’t feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom."

Juan in America (1931)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eric Linklater (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.